Arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990 reached 1,911 USD mil in 2015 in Saudi Arabia, according to the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.
This is
27.3 %
less than
in the previous year.

Historically, arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990 in Saudi Arabia reached an all time high of 2,900 USD mil in 1998 and an all time low of 5.00 USD mil in 1964.
When compared to Saudi Arabia's main peers, arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990
in Iraq amounted to 486 USD mil, 142 USD mil in Jordan, 1,642 USD mil in United Arab Emirates and 14.5 USD mil in Yemen in 2015.

Saudi Arabia has been ranked 4th within the group of 134 countries we follow in terms of arms imports at constant USD prices from 1990,
29 places above the position seen 10 years ago.

Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licences.

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Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licences. The data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armoured vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Transfers of other military equipment, such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, light artillery, ammunition and support equipment, technology transfers, and other services are excluded. India, Australia and South Korea were the largest importers of arms in 2010, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, as they bought arms worth USD 3.3, 1.7 and 1.1 billion each (at 1990 constant prices).